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This papcr uses a new firm panel data set to explore the relationship between R&D and productivity in German manufacturing firms for the period from 1979 to 1989. The results confirm the view that K&D is an important determinant of productivity growth. In the cross-section, the elasticity of...
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relationship between job creation and innovation, as measured by R&D investments, in Norwegian manufacturing. We compare job …
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In endogenous growth theory models have either increasing or constant ranges of product variety. Developments in modem biotechnology however show cases of increasing, decreasing or constant ranges of product variants. We present a simple endogenous growth model allowing for all of these three...
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This paper is an attempt to quantify key aspects of innovations, 'basicness' and appropriability, and explore the linkages between them. We rely on detailed patent data. particularly on patent citations, thus awarding the proposed measures a very wide coverage. Relying on the prior that...
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This article analyses the determinants of research and development (R&D) and the role of innovation on labour … in promoting innovation in both manufacturing and service industries, and driving growth throughout the regional economy … very prone to carrying out R&D and they invest more in innovation projects. R&D expenditures, output innovation, investment …
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This survey covers the recent literature on inter-firm networks as far as they have implications for innovation and …
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In this paper, it is argued that investments in information and communication technologies (ICT) are closely linked to complementary innovations and are most productive in firms with experience from earlier innovations. In the empirical analysis based on firm-level panel data covering the period...
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During the last 40 years, economics of innovation has emerged as a distinct area of enquiry at the crossing of the …, elaboration and evolution of different fields of analysis in economic theory, innovation is viewed as a complex, path …
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a country undertake both innovation and imitation to improve their productivity. IPR protection reduces the cost of … innovation, but makes imitation more costly. Countries at early stages of growth adopt a strategy of high effort on imitation …, and switch to the strategy of high effort on innovation at some point. A higher degree of IPR protection makes the switch …
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In this article, we construct an innovation scoreboard based on a conceptually acceptable endogenous indicator which is … shown to be the output caused by the innovation generating process. A balanced panel of data on 552 UK firms over the period … innovation defined as the successful exploitation of new ideas, it is proposed that exploitation be measured by total factor …
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